Halloween (almost)

Even though I was stuffed beyond belief, Wonder Sushi was awesome!  I started painting my room today, I've done three walls white, and I haven't decided what colour to do the last wall.  I am going to choose some quotes and cut them out of vinyl with our Cricut, and put them on my walls.  I bought a bunch of cool picture frames to cover my walls with.  That's why I went with white, a plain background with lots of accents.   I am really excited.  Tomorrow I am going to carve my pumpkin, I still don't know what I am going to do.  And I'm not sure what I'm going to dress up as, either.  Don't worry, I'm not going trick or treating, but everybody dresses up for school.  I might be Sherlock, or I might put a wind up key on my back, and be, well, a wind up toy, I guess.  Last year, all the teachers dressed up as Waldo, and one teacher was the "real" Waldo.  You had to try and guess which teacher was the real Waldo, apparently they looked like Waldo.  Some teachers played their costume up a bit, and made themselves different.  Some were Wenda, Wilma, Odlaw, and one teacher was even Wizard Whitebeard.  I'm excited to know what they are going to do this year.  I am going to give out the candy this year, I want to see what costumes kids are coming up with these days.  Did you know that Some of the top Halloween costumes this year are Angry Birds, Rebecca Black, Lady Gaga, Charlie Sheen and Will and Kate? Kind of interesting to see how costumes have changed over the years.  Isn't the penguin just so cute?

I Heart Sushi

So the CWD (Canada's Worst Driver) episode was awesome, as usual.  I really like Aaron.  He was a great driver, but then was in an accident and was in a coma for 2 months and forgot everything.  And I mean EVERYTHING.  He didn't even know who his dad was.  You really feel bad for him.  Plus he's cute :)  We're going to Wonder Sushi for dinner tonight, I'm so excited! I've never been, but i) its sushi, ii) its all you can eat and iii) everybody says its great, so its gotta be good, right?  I think I've mentioned this before, but I am interested in seeing Once Upon A Time, a show coming out.  But to my utter disbelief, I screwed up the premier date, so now I have to watch it online or something.  I have a ton of chemistry homework this weekend and there is a English test on Monday.  This pic is a parody on the Keep Calm, Carry On posters.  It a joke from Sherlock.  Today's song is Don't Stop Believing, done by my high school staff at the end of last school year as a good-bye gift. 

:$

This is not turning out to be a good week.  I'm just so worn out, emotionally and physically.  I need to go bed earlier.  I have a lot going on at school, its hard to keep track of.  I went to Anti-Gravity Yoga at the gym this evening with my friend Shannon.  It was good/interesting, seems like one of the things that will be more productive the more you do of it.  Basically,  there's a silk hammock hanging from the ceiling and you do yoga in it.  I know silk is really strong and all that, so it won't break, but I couldn't help feeling a little nervous about the whole idea.  The silk looks so fraile and delicate, like it will easily rip.  There was a lot of hanging upside down and now I have a headache.  My friend, who has been before, says you get used to it.  Likely story.  I'm about to watch Canada's Worst Driver, cause I forgot last night :$  I find it weird when that happens, you are so excited for something, then it just totally slips your mind.  After that, I need to study for chemistry.  Everybody always likes when tests are bumped back, but then you just forget everything.  We were supposed to have this test on Monday, but now its tomorrow.  Talk about bumping it back a little bit.  I'll try to go to bed earlier, but I also just borrowed this book from my BFFBAMLY (not to be confused with BFFLAAT) and its really good.  I've read it before, but a long time ago and I forgot a lot of it.  Its really hard to put it down, there's just so many cliff hangers!  Today's song it Imagine - John Lennon.  This version is by Glee season one. I know its a bit fuzzy, but I think it's really touching how they join in together.  Well, I'm off to CWD!!!!

Mojo

Today was not a great day, but not really bad.  Just not into doing anything today.  I will have to force myself to do my homework.  I am so excited for the premiere of Canada's Worst Driver tonight!  This is the only show that I have ever followed, as in watch it every week as it comes out.  Although, there is a show coming out on abc called Once Upon A Time, which looks interesting.  I saw an ad for it and the song at the end sounded good, but I'm kind of confused as to when its coming out.  I really hope I figure it out because I don't want to miss it.  My new year's resolution this year was not to gain any weight.  But I kind of forgot to weigh myself so that I knew what I had to weigh at the end of the year.  So I'm just kind of guessing where I want to be with my weight.  I need to give myself a strict talking to about my after school snack :)  It is so tempting to eat after school with all the baked goods around. And also keeping up with the gym.  Today's song is Gotta Be Somebody - Nickelback.  This is kind of an old song, and for the longest time I didn't know what it was called but it would be stuck in my head for days.  Finally, I figured it out :)

Just Another Day

So my mom and I have been talking lately about watching Glee, so we rented the first season on DVD.  And I am reluctant to say that I am a Gleek.  But not as much as my sister is, she is positively obsessed.  I do really enjoy the show though.  I'm glad I only started watching it now, because since its all on the DVD I don't have to wait a week until I can see the next episode :)  But soon enough I'll catch up to season 3 and then I'll have to wait.  We went for a walk this afternoon with some family friends in a place that we often went walking with FIH, kind of in honor of him.  A little muddy, and of course my sister decided it would be a good idea to wear her new $200 Ugg boots (fyi, I think Ugg boots are a total waste of money and really ugh [see the pun there?] when you get them wet).  Sometimes I wonder about her...  It was nice, the sky really cleared up and turned out to be a really nice day.  I went to sewing this morning, we are working on little baggies to sell to raise money for our missions fund.  Afterwards, we went to Michael's (I hate how the 'a' comes before the 'e', it doesn't make sense) and I bought a Value Pack of scrapbooking supplies.  Its a bag filled with a bunch of stickers and embellishments, but only half the bag is see-through, so you only kind of know what you are getting.  I think its a pretty good deal, with a nice element of surprise.  Today's song is Canadian Please.  These two people made it for a school project or something, and it was a huge YouTube hit.

Bad Week

This was not a good week for me, and I'm sure for my family and close friends as well.  At the beginning of the week we didn't know if our FIH was going to make it.  Then there was all this crappy weather.  And on Wednesday, our FIH passed away.  This was very hard on all of us, and honestly harder on me that I once thought it might be.  I don't want to talk about it too much for respects sake, I guess, and I don't want to start crying again.  FIH's wife has asked me to decorate a box for at the funeral that people can write memories that they had of FIH, in.  This song, O Lord, You are Beautiful, we sang in church last week, and it is one of my mom's favourtie songs.  But it also reminds you that God has a reason for everything, and that is something I have needed to think about re FIH's passing.  Please pray for FIH's family.  One of my teachers from elementary school showed me this video, very cool.

Busted

Today when I got home from school, my mom is asking me how my day went etc., then out of the blue, she says, "BTW (OK, so she didn't actually sat BTW, [she's not into that kind of stuff] but it was along those lines...) you're busted."  WHAT?!?!?!? I was confused.  She then goes on to tell me that she found out about my blog.  So, busted.  I went three weeks before she found out, not bad.  She found out because a certain somebody (I'm not naming names...I don't want to be mean [and by all means I don't want to sound mean{even though I am sad she found out}cause its nothing serious]) might have mentioned it while talking about our friend in the hospital, because I had mentioned in a previous post that my parents were visiting him.  The person then said that I had mentioned something about that on my blog.  My mom was confused, because our friend (who from now on I am going to call FIH, Friend In Hospital) has a sister with the same name as me, thinking maybe it was FIH's sister's blog, the thought of me having a blog never crossing her mind.  But then today she was looking at the history on the PC and tada, there was my blog.  So, I guess I have to filter my thoughts now since my mom will most definitely be reading this blog.  I'm jk, there is nothing on my blog that I would not say straight to my mother's face.  The song of the day today is Over You - Daughtry.  I really like Daughtry, you should check out some of their other songs.  About the picture...my friends and I can be a tad weird sometimes, especially my friend Kris-Ann.  She is out there, but we are always quick to join her in her ways, but I am only like that with her, and maybe my BFFLAAT, seeing my weirdness is reserved for VIPs.  Anyways, she like to Photoshop a lot of weird pictures.  She didn't do this one, but this is a good comparison :)

Furniture

104.  That's how many times I've listened to It Will Rain.  Which means that know it is at least on the top played songs list.  I'm getting there, 4mins and 17secs at a time (that's how long the song is, in case that didn't make sense...).  We started watercolours in art class today, I'm super excited.  This year, we get all our own supplies, instead of all the materials belonging to the class and sharing them.  This way the only person you can blame if something gets ruined is yourself.  So we got our watercolour paints, brushes and a palette.  Yesterday I was googling (that should be a word) different furniture stores, and I found PB Teen.  It is all for teens, and I like their style!  Bit expensive though....  Today's song is Nice Guys - Niga Higa.  I was once obsessed with this song, its catchy.  Question of the day: do you know what the picture is of?  No? What a shame, because I think it is one of the simplest, yet smartest and coolest bookshelf ever.  Bookshelf, you say? It couldn't be.  But, it is :)  See, its a special "floating" bookshelf.  The back cover of your book goes under the metal support, but hooks into those little handle thingys.  Then you're free to stack more books on top, creating a floating bookshelf. I love Umbra, they have such cool stuff.

Miracles

Sorry I couldn't blog last night, we had guests over then I was babysitting.  That weekend went way too fast.  Today in physics we did a lab and I was so confused. Hopefully Hyunjin (an Asian in my class) can help me figure it out...like he has for everything.... I'm about to start working on my art sketchbook for this week, an example of satire.  This is the example my teacher gave us (see pic).  I think the teddy bear is just so cute!  She also gave us the example of: Smart Phones - ruining education since 2005.  I think I'm gonna do something about texting and how it is destroying our ability to spell.  My mom is currently at the hospital visiting our family friend.  He is doing a little better, I guess, but it is still a matter of life or death.  It is very sad.  He needs a miracle.  I have a page-a-day calender of quotes.  The quote the other day was: "I have sometimes been wildly despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but though it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie.  I thought this quote was rather fitting to my family's situation. Today's song is It Will Rain - Bruno Mars. I really like this song (and not just because its related to Twilight).  So you know how on iTunes, there is a playlist of your top played songs? Well for a long time, ours was just a mix of random songs. But now it has been taken over by my sister who has listened to Jesse J's Who You Are album...brace yourselves...can you handle this...500 times. 500 TIMES. That is ridiculous. So just to prove nothing, I am going to try to listen to It Will Rain more than 500 times. Just so I can say that I have listened to one song the most.  Hopefully I don't get too sick of it :( cause I actually really like this song.

Full Day

So today we went to Mastermind, like I said we would.  It was actually just my dad, brother and me.  My brother also brought along a friend.  It was a zoo, people and kids everywhere.  But I like what they've done with the store.  Before (when it was also a toy store), it was set up very awkwardly.  Now it has an open floor plan which makes it look much bigger.  There was free Kiwi Kraze samples (there is a Kiwi Kraze store just down the street) which was awesome.  The free Lego was not mini figures :(  but it was a small plane/jet.  If you build it, you can have it for free, my brother did one.  His friend didn't, and neither did I, I don't think I count as a 'kid'.  But, I did buy some Lego mini figures, it was buy 3 get one free, which for Lego is a pretty good deal.  I didn't get any repeats (you buy the mini figures in little packets and you don't know which one of the series you're getting), sigh of relief, I've gotten repeats too many times.  Here I am rambling about Lego.  This afternoon I went over to my BFFLAAT's house and washed windows, $80 bucks in my pocket.  Stayed for dinner, very good, but I ate way too much, I'm still stuffed.  I just finished watching Sherlock Holmes.  Loved it!!! I have been waiting to watch this movie since forever.  Hope your weekend goes well!
Oops, almost forgot the song of the day: Adele's Don't You Remember.

Toys

Today was an overall good day.  I was rather unproductive this afternoon, just watched some TV.  I really enjoy small classes, like when there is a buy-out and I don't go, so there is only a few kids in class.  Today was one of those days.  In chemistry we just did a review sheet for a surprise quiz on Monday.  I know what your thinking, its not a surprise if you know about it.  Well, its not a surprise for me, but it will be for the kids who weren't in class :)  My friend Jesslyn stayed behind too.  Our teacher was having a race I guess you could call it to see who could finish the sheet first with no errors.  Both Jesslyn and I had a few mistakes, but we fixed them, and were the first ones to get every question right.  Our prize was a mini pocket sized periodic table.  I know this doesn't seem too thrilling, but believe me, it was.  See, at the beginning of the year he told us about these mini pocket sized periodic table and made them a big deal. It was pretty funny to watch him freak out over something so small.  But of course, that made everybody want one.  So finally, I got one :)  Today's song is I Dreamed A Dream, and in this version, sung by Susan Boyle.  She is the perfect example of "don't judge a book by its cover".  A Mastermind toy store just opened in London, and we are going tomorrow.  There is one by some relatives of ours, and we used to go every time. Well, now we can go whenever we want. I'm super excited, cause we got a flyer from them, and it said they would be giving away Lego.  I love Lego.  But Lego is very expensive, not exactly something you give away for free unless its small.  The smallest Lego thing would be the minifigures (see pic), which I just so happen to collect.  So I will stay hopeful.

Feelings

I was soooo close to getting the mark I wanted on my physics test, just one percent off.  Unfortunately, that means it wasn't enough.  :(  I'm really thinking about how I am going to redo my room, I am very indecisive.  I can never make up my mind.  Over the weekend my family played Rummikub.  It is a great game, I almost always win.  My dad can never win :)  For my art sketchbook this week we had to design a winter card for a contest in our school board.  My teacher said she would select some to actually enter in the contest, and mine was one of them!!! That made me really proud, gave me a confidence boost.  I love my mom's baking, I just had a piece of her pumpkin cake/loaf. And if I say anything at all, it is mighty fine.  This is a picture I found on the internet, I think it looks really cool.  I had to do something like this (with the squares and different colours) for my final art project last year.

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Just got back from the gym, I had a consultation with a personal trainer.  It went well, I know how to use some more of the machines now.  I've decided to go to the Salvation Army tonight, even though it might mean staying up late to get my work done.  The rest of my physics test was rather stressful - I should have done more review.  Today's song is Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5.  I don't have much to say right now, I'm panicking about my work, but nothing else going on.  Oh, maybe I should mention that a good family friend has been admitted to the hospital, please pray for him.  He has had some surgery done already, it's all very surreal.  In that sense, it hasn't been a very good week.  My grandma's friends' mom died this week.  Changing topics, I think this is a cool picture, it is kind of neon, like under a black light :)

Helping Out

Today I had my physics test...sort of.  There was an assembly during half the period, and the teacher wasn't saying anything about getting more time so the entire class (a total of 15 students) was freaking out even more.  But in the end he said we would get more time tomorrow.  Oh how I pray it will be enough!  My chemistry test might be moved too.  Apparently there is a track and field meet or something so some of the class won't be there...I just want to get the test over with.  Today's song is Grenade - Bruno Mars.  I get this song stuck in my head a lot. This is one of my (many) pet peeves, especially when I haven't heard the song recently.  This week my youth group is going to the Salvation Army to help make food for the homeless.  I feel bad because I might not make it because of how much work I have.  Today my school launched Oaktober, our annual fall fundraiser.  This year we are raising money for United Way (as always) and the Women's Community House.  We do a bunch of fun things that you pay to be a part of to raise the money. 

Thanksgiving Dinner

So as soon as I finished blogging (I can't believe I'm a blogger now...) we went for a walk.  After church this morning, we all went outside, I went for a bike ride, some went walking or roller blading.  That was fun, although it is really hot in the sun.  Its not too bad in the shade.  We have been working on dinner now for a few hours, turkey :)  I am really grateful that I can be surrounded by family and food :)  I have just found out that Sherlock, which was supposed to air, well, now, is now not airing until May of 2012.  Is that a bummer or what?  I have been waiting all year, and now I have to wait longer.  One way that I make it through is that I like to look at the blog of John Watson.  It is made up to go along with the BBC series of Sherlock, But it also seems like it is actually a blog.  Another movie I really enjoy is Avatar.  If you haven't seen it, you need to.

Energy

I had forgotten how much energy my cousins have (they are 12 and 9).  They are currently playing a game with balloons, you can't get hit by a balloon or you lose a limb.  It's amazing what you can get some people to do :) And they've decided to film it.  Some home video.  To be honest, I'm not really sure what to do with myself.  For a couple years now I haven't been that interested in playing with them, my brother and sister are closer to their age and have more fun with them than I do.  But I also don't want to sit and talk with the adults.  You can tell that they are avoiding some topics because I'm there.  I don't feel comfortable there.  So I walk around, try and do some homework....  My dad is working right now and my uncle has gone for a bike ride (it's great weather right now, considering its October).  So its just my mom, her sister and their mom talking, catching up with each other.  Sometimes I just walk around the house because of nothing better to do.  It's days like today that I wish that I had chores or something just to do something,  I also feel guilty, my family has come to my home and here I am avoiding them.  I was never really the type of people person.  Maybe we will go for a walk or something, that would give me something to do.  My aunt usually brings up the idea of going for a walk, she doesn't like to sit still for too long.  I am going to a Justin Hines concert tonight, I've seen him before and he is really good, my mom has all of his CDs.  I am looking forward to that.  This is Pascal, he is from the movie Tangled.  I think he is so cute!

Thanksgiving Weekend

So the good news is that my English essay due date has been moved from Wednesday to Friday.  The bad news is that now I have chemistry test on Thursday.  And of course, the infamous physics test.  I really hope I do well.  My grandma is coming tonight for the weekend and my aunt and her family is coming tomorrow morning.  They'll stay until Monday.  Personally, I would rather have a Friday off than a Monday.  Don't ask me why.  Today's song is Seasons of Love from Rent.  My school is putting on Rent, some of my friends are a part of it.  I would never be able to do something like that.  I love quotes, and my sister told me this one today and I just thought it was hilarious.  "Some people are like slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs." I also really like this quote from Sherlock (see picture).

I Didn't Forget!

pretty, isn't it?

I think that my art teacher, Caldwell, liked my sketchbook.  We had to make something out of pencils, so I did bushels of wheat and I also did Angry Birds.  Currently I'm working on my chemistry project (taking a break, I guess I should say).  I'm kind of freaking out about how much work I have to do this weekend.  To add to the list I gave you yesterday, I now have a chemistry test on Thursday.  Too bad about Steve Jobs, eh?  I really hope Apple can keep up to their standards without him.  I really want an iPad, I think it would be great to play Angry Birds on :) I have a playlist that is of my favourite songs, so I think that I should share it with you.  To start you off, right now, at this very moment I am listening to Adele - Chasing Pavements.  I first heard it as an audition on American Idol or something (I don't actually watch that kind of stuff, I was flipping channels), and liked it.  I'll try to give you a new song everyday.  And if you were wondering, my dentist appointment yesterday went great, there is nothing wrong!!! 

Too Much Work

I did it again.  I forgot to post.  I am so disappointed in myself.  Oh well.  So I will be going to the dentist in a few minutes, really hoping for an all clear!  I hope to get to the gym afterwards, I might as well use the membership my mom bought me.  I found out that two of my friends have memberships to the gym as well, so maybe I can exercise with them sometime.  I love being a scrapbooker.  Not only do I get to be creative and capture great memories, but I also do some pretty awesome project displays because of all the scrapbooking stuff I have.  My chemistry project?  Looking pretty awesome if I do say so myself.  Found out that there is a physics test on tuesday, which means I'll have to study over thanksgiving (I'm Canadian), not fun.  I actually am pretty booked: art sketchbook due tomorrow, chemistry project due Friday, no school monday (yay!!!), physics test tuesday, english essay due wednesday, next sketchbook assignment due thursday.  Not fun. And over a holiday weekend too.  I suppose I'll live.  So I realized that I've talked about my BFFLAAT and her blog, so if you were interested, it's called Same Day; Thirty Years Apart.  It's with her and her mom.  If you look through it, you will hear about me, good things, I hope :) I love Sherlock, as I've mentioned, from BBC.  I really want to see the movie, like, really bad! And then go see the sequel when it comes out. :)

I Forgot

Not even a week in and I forgot to post.  I don't feel too bad though, my BFFLAAT hardly remembers to post every day.  If I had remembered to post yesterday, I would've said something like this:  Union Burger was awesome!!!! It was actually pretty good.  We went to the mall afterwards, I got some lululemons for exercising (my mom signed me up to the local gym, she said I wasn't active enough...).  I also got an angry birds stuffed animal, the yellow triangle dude.  I have the red bird, pretty soon I'm gonna be able to play angry birds in real life!  My sister just about bought the entire mall (or it seems that way).  She got a lot of gift cards for her birthday, so she used those.  I watched part of Inception again last night, it's just such a good movie.  Anyways, now onto today's post:  I have a lot of work!!! We got an essay in English today, I have to write about year-round schooling (who thought of this idea and where is he?).  We are also doing an ISP in English, I'm reading Room by Emma Donoghue (so far so good).  I also have a science project, with easy questions, but there is a lot of them.  And the usual, physics questions and art sketchbook (this week we have to draw a living creature made of pencils). Oh, and I also have an art test tomorrow.  It's just all to much.  How's a girl to live?  Some good news is that I got a mini job, to wash some windows at my BFFLAAT's house.  Her mom is gonna pay us $80, each!  I can always use the cash!  My grandma is coming down for thanksgiving, she doesn't come down often because it is hard for my granddad to travel.  I highly suggest reading The Hunger Games, if of course, you haven't read them already.  Nah, even if you have, you should read them again.  It is a great series.  At first I was turned off because it's about this girl who has to fight to the death for entertainment to her government.  But it is not at all gory or anything, I really liked it.  You will too, I guarantee it :)

The Weekend!

I am so glad that it is the weekend.  Every Saturday morning I go to my church to a sewing group.  I love creating quilts and lots of other stuff.  Right now I am working on a quilt with circles, lot of them!  It means I don't get to sleep in, but I feel like I've had a more productive day.  Last night at youth group, it was cake boss night and my team won (no surprise) but there was no prize (also no surprise).  It was a pretty awesome cake, we did pacman (see picture).  We are planning to go out for dinner to Union Burger, I've never been before but all my friends have said it's really good.  I got a belated birthday gift today, a gift card to mac.  I don't wear makeup, but maybe since I have a gift card I'll give it a try.